Safe Haven (2013)

Safe Haven Synopsis

An affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again, Safe Haven is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author behind the hit films The Notebook and Dear John. When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly, she begins putting down roots, and gains the courage to start a relationship with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children. But dark secrets intrude on her new life with such terror that she is forced to rediscover the meaning of sacrifice and rely on the power of love in this deeply moving romantic thriller.

Oh man, do people hate spoilers. In a pop culture climate with DVRs, VOD, streaming television and all other manner of apps and devices that have freed us from the tyranny of TV and movie scheduling, the downside is the prevalence on every form of social media of spoilers for everything you haven't gotten around to watching yet.

This week, fans can choose between purchasing Christopher McQuarrie’s big action flick, Jack Reacher, Andy Muschietti’s terrifying horror flick, Mama, and the newest Nicholas Sparks adaptations, Safe Haven, which mixes the usual romance up with a few thriller aspects. Overall, there’s a lot to choose from in a lot of different genres of film.

It is Safe Haven the exclusive Blu-ray bonus clip above discusses, with actors Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel talking about working with director Lasse Hallström and the improvisational processes the director prefers to use in order to keep things real.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment is putting together the Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download release of Safe Haven, a romance film based on a novel by—you guessed it—Nicholas Sparks. Safe Haven will hit the aforementioned mediums on May 7.

Maybe it's about time the Die Hard films started looking for a good day to die. Actually, Presidents Day 2013 might be a good choice. The fifth entry in the franchise might have topped the box office this weekend, but given the competition that's not saying much.

I'm not sure how I've boxed myself into a corner, defending a Nicholas Sparks book, but here we are. I picked up the book of Safe Haven on a whim, knowing I'd probably wind up reviewing the movie and figuring I could use a heads up on what to expect. Then I saw the Safe Haven movie, out in theaters this weekend, and was amazed-- it had the power to make me actually appreciate the book

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Jam packed slate of movies this week. There’s a little something for everyone. We’ve got a Nicholas Sparks for the sappy. Animated for the kids. Another supernatural romance for the teeny-bopper crowd and John McClane for all the true blue, red-blooded Americans out there

Relativity Media is making some changes to its upcoming schedule, and the two projects they are moving around couldn't be more different. The studio has announced via press release that the animated comedy Turkeys, starring Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson, has officially landed a due date, while the Nicholas Sparks adaptation Safe Haven is moving towards a holiday release.

Safe Haven adapts a best-selling Nicholas Sparks novel about a beautiful but abused woman running from her angry spouse who settles in a rustic, coastal North Carolina town and waits for her husband to find her and beat her senseless yet again. OK, that’s not the official synopsis, but that’s what we’re getting out of the second Safe Haven trailer, which arrives mere days after the first one dropped.

Oscar nominee Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules) will direct the film, which looks to begin shooting in North Carolina in July. Relativity has targeted a Feb. 8, 2013 release date … automatically making Safe Haven the ideal Valentine’s Day date movie for early next year.

Based on the book's description at Amazon, Duhamel will presumably be playing Alex, the widowed father of two who becomes close to Hough's character Kate, even though she's struggling to hide a dark secret in her past. Safe Haven was published last year and, like, nearly all of Sparks's books, was an instant success

He's in talks with Relativity Media to direct Safe Haven, a Sparks novel the company optioned last summer, about a young woman living in North Carolina and haunted by an ugly past. Yes, there's romance involved of course. The studio is looking to start shooting in the fall

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Sparks has been issuing a "list of terms" to studios interested in picking up the rights to the book, which is the first thriller Sparks has written but also carries the tagline, "In the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven."